A Look Into the World of Anorexia

A Look Into the World of Anorexia
Nicole R. King
Georgia Perimeter College
Author Note
Nicole R. King, Criminal Justice Major, Georgia Perimeter College
Abstract
Eating disorders have become an increasing public health problem once thought to be an affliction amongst young women, now an epidemic across culture and gender boundaries. Anorexia gives rise to serious socio-economic and bio-psychological circumstances of our ever vast, growing society. Awareness of eating disorders have increased but perhaps only in proportion to its advancement of its research and treatment. That which still leaves us in a position for a much greater demand for education and heightened awareness of this perplexing disease.
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Eating disorders have taken on a myriad of initiators, i.e., environmental, biological, hereditary and social factors.
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